So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Let your soul be your pilot.

Music keeps the soul alive.

While the individual contributions provide the “building block” of creativity

A storm is never quiet because it is always calling out to the rainbow.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever.

That thing in you that you think is a demon is actually a bodyguard that's run amok

Money refused loose its brightness.

I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.

I think America is on the right track.